Common Historical Myths About the Church

October 19th, 2009 by Matt

This post is part update, part recycle.

Earlier on in this blog’s life, I ran a small series of posts last year on common historical myths about the Church that are so pervasive in society that most Christians fall for them. Anyway, after receiving some correspondence, I have updated this post, More on the “Dark Ages” and Other Propaganda.

[I hope I am being mysterious enough to make you want to check it out – especially you Bethyada]

Tags: Christian Blogs · Christian History · Dark · Dark Ages · Faith and Reason · Science and Religion5 Comments

5 responses so far ↓

Anon
Oct 19, 2009 at 8:01 pm

The links don’t work?
bethyada
Oct 19, 2009 at 10:32 pm

I read it again
.-= My last blog-post ..Let it rain =-.
Dean
Oct 23, 2009 at 11:10 pm

There’s a good recent post on this topic at Michael Flynn’s blog:
http://m-francis.livejournal.com/101929.html

“My usual noodling around in re medieval science led me to an astonishing web-essay by someone calling himself Jim Walker on a religious belief site called NoBeliefs.com for Freethinkers.
Now my first reaction to “freethinker” is “well, you get what you pay for,” and nothing in the essay caused me to alter that opinion…”
Madeleine
Oct 23, 2009 at 11:43 pm

Thanks for that Dean, it looks really good. I have bookmarked it to read when I don’t have deadlines.
.-= My last blog-post ..Guest Post: Dan Brown’s History of Science =-.
Oyunlar
Jul 22, 2010 at 6:18 am

@anon the links are working man?

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